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ခွက်

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Burmese

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Etymology

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Perhaps from a Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kwak (bowl), also reflected in Mon ခေါ် (cup), and Vietnamese cốc (glass, tumbler) (the latter borrowed from a Sino-Tibetan language). Schuessler 2007 (listed in STEDT as S583) compares Old Chinese (OC *ɢʷa, “broad-mouthed bowl”), though this seems phonetically suspect. His secondary comparison with (OC *ɡʷa, *ɡʷas, “emaciated”), taking the original sense as "concave", appears more phonetically reasonable, if the Old Chinese pronunciation is similar to that of (OC *ɡʷas, “to fear”) in Baxter-Sagart's reconstruction, with the same phonetic character component.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kʰwɛʔ/
  • Romanization: MLCTS: hkwak • ALA-LC: khvakʻ • BGN/PCGN: hkwet • Okell: hkweʔ

Noun

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ခွက် (hkwak)

  1. cup, bowl
    ရေ နှစ်ခွက်re hnachkwaktwo cups of water

Derived terms

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See also

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Verb

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ခွက် (hkwak)

  1. to sag (at the middle of a surface, like a cup)

Further reading

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